Hmmm, didn't realize that (uninstalled VFP* beta so help gone too). Never would have guessed that either.

I'd say something more is needed then, possibly as JosP suggested. At least that way one could get all legal variations.

My apology for offering UNinformed opinion.



>What if there's internal and external config files, which one should it return? Under these circumstances, it can read settings from both.
>
>>SNIP
>>>How do you think it should behave?
>>>
>>>Perhaps it should return the internal file if there is no ALLOWEXTERNAL = ON in the internal file, as there would be no possiblity of reading an external file.
>>
>>In other words, it should return the path/name of the CONFIG.FPW (equivalent) actually used, REGARDLESS of how/where it was specified and the empty string if none is used. I don't know why "ALLOWEXTERNAL" would even be a factor.
>>That's what I'd vote for.
>>
>>cheers